Very worry about any one that has such a power. Power corrupt. Absolutely power corrupt absolutely.
Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources
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#912Anyone knows what happened to the small change $6B needed for WHO to solve world starvation?
Re: Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources
#913Ways I think Twitter could immediately improve, from the perspective of users: - Optional verification check marks for anyone who wants them. Throw out the Blue Check status symbol. Offer "real person" twitter filter. - Transparent and consistent moderation policies. Bans are inconsistently applied for reasons that are often hard to figure out. - Return to a reverse chronological time and/or down selection of rage-ba…
- Better search. Not necessarily in all of Twitter, but better search in a user's own tweet history.
Re: Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources
#914Ways I think Twitter could immediately improve, from the perspective of users: - Optional verification check marks for anyone who wants them. Throw out the Blue Check status symbol. Offer "real person" twitter filter. - Transparent and consistent moderation policies. Bans are inconsistently applied for reasons that are often hard to figure out. - Return to a reverse chronological time and/or down selection of rage-ba…
When twitter started taking the blue checkmark away from people as "punishment" I saw that as nonsensical. The blue check was to confirm the account was real, and not an imposture. It wasn't supposed to be a signal of "quality." The first person I remember they took the checkmark from was Milo Yiannopoulos. I still don't understand the reasoning for this. https://www.fastcompany.com/40511058/most-twitter-execs-didn..…
The blue check wasn’t really about identity. It functions as a “noteworthy” marker. Blue checks get notifications from other blue checks is a separate section.
So Milo was hassling one of the actresses from ghostbusters. Her important notifications were full of insults. She complained to her talent agency.
Her talent agency reps a lot of celebrities. Their complaint was that they need blue check notifications to be civil because the talent has to look for questions from reporters and other celebrities.
Pulling Milos blue check was the easiest way for Twitter to fix the problem.
Re: Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources
#915Ways I think Twitter could immediately improve, from the perspective of users: - Optional verification check marks for anyone who wants them. Throw out the Blue Check status symbol. Offer "real person" twitter filter. - Transparent and consistent moderation policies. Bans are inconsistently applied for reasons that are often hard to figure out. - Return to a reverse chronological time and/or down selection of rage-ba…
Now if only Reddit, Facebook, and everyone other social media platform on the planet did the same thing. Far too long have our "Communist" brothers poisoned the well.
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#916Anyone knows what happened to the small change $6B needed for WHO to solve world starvation?
He said he'd provide the money if they could show how they would use the money to help. They refused because they were caught in their lie. Biden can't solve American hunger with 4T, 6B cannot solve world hunger. Throwing money around just doesn't solve problems
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#917Cool, we’ve reached the point where to improve our chances of protecting free public speech we have to abandon the public stock market and entrust it to a benevolent few.
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#918All this drama but I really feel this is a huge waste of time, energy and money for Mr Musk. Seriously we all know Twitter will continue to be a cess pool of human thought in the name of free speech. I think the only feature we need online is ramifications for being an asshole on the internet other than just being 'banned'.
Re: Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources
#919All this drama but I really feel this is a huge waste of time, energy and money for Mr Musk. Seriously we all know Twitter will continue to be a cess pool of human thought in the name of free speech. I think the only feature we need online is ramifications for being an asshole on the internet other than just being 'banned'.
The whole point is that less people will be banned. I'm hoping that the only people that are ever banned are those posting pornography or violating us laws.
Re: Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources
#920Ways I think Twitter could immediately improve, from the perspective of users: - Optional verification check marks for anyone who wants them. Throw out the Blue Check status symbol. Offer "real person" twitter filter. - Transparent and consistent moderation policies. Bans are inconsistently applied for reasons that are often hard to figure out. - Return to a reverse chronological time and/or down selection of rage-ba…
> Optional verification check marks for anyone who wants them. Throw out the Blue Check status symbol Those are not mutually exclusive. I may be interested to know that @emmanuelmacron and @emmanuel_macron are both real persons but I’d also want to know that @emmanuelmacron is the famous one while the other is just an homonyme. Blue Check symbols are also a lot useful to distinguish real brand accounts from fake ones…
Moderation is a hard problem, but not as hard as people like to claim. The solution is transparency.